The European Union Training Initiative (EUTI) is a three-year EU-funded project that aims to strengthen the EU’s effectiveness as a global peace and security actor by equipping civilian crisis-management personnel with the skills needed for complex deployments. Building on its predecessor EUCTI, it supports the implementation of the EU’s Civilian CSDP Compact and 2024 CSDP Training Policy by delivering standardised, high-quality, demand-driven pre-mission and in-mission training, alongside advisory and innovation functions. Its core objectives are structured around three pillars:

1. Responding to training needs,
2. Advising on harmonisation, standardisation and certification, and
3. Innovating new training approaches - targeting primarily civilian, police and gendarmerie experts preparing for or deployed in CSDP and other international crisis management and peace support missions, as well as EU institutions and Member States that build the capacity of personnel involved in international peace and security components.

EUTI is delivered by a consortium of 15 European civilian, police and gendarmerie training institutions, coordinated by the Center for European Perspective (CEP) as secretariat and lead. It represents an evolution from EUCTI into a single, integrated European training initiative combining civilian and law-enforcement dimensions, thereby strengthening cross-sectoral cooperation. Within its governance and quality assurance framework, working groups ensure continuous improvement; ACP chairs the Working Group on Evaluation, responsible for assessing training quality and impact —continuing its leadership role already established under EUCTI. This continuity underscores ACP’s contribution to embedding evaluation as a core component of EUTI’s overall quality assurance architecture while supporting the Initiative’s transition toward a more unified and comprehensive European training system.